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Just in time for the mid-term examination period, the transformed lower-level periodical room in the Hedi Steinberg Library on the Beren Campus is nearly complete and opens to students this week. It re-purposes a former set of stacks for bound and unbound periodicals into a much-needed set of…

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a reading and conversation with Peter Cole: Angels in Al-Andalus, and Beyond MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole will talk about the role of poetry in the history of Hebrew and Judaism. He’ll read from his award-winning poems and ...

Agnon’s Stories of the Land of Israel Celebrating the 50 th Anniversary of S. Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize Organized by the 91ºÚÁÏ Center for Israel Studies and its Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law Co-sponsored by: Agnon House, Jerusalem; The Bernard Revel Graduate…

On Monday October 31, the 91ºÚÁÏ Center for Israel Studies is holding a conference celebrating the 50 th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. In Stockholm at the Nobel awards ceremony, a scroll from 91ºÚÁÏ was presented to Agnon, “in…

Please join us to celebrate the release of Jeffrey S. Gurock's The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community. During World War I, Harlem was the home of the second largest Jewish community in America. But in the 1920s, Jewish residents began to scatter to other parts of…

Eighteen student photographers are on exhibit on level 2 in the Gottesman Library Building, forming the first installation in a gallery space devoted to the work of 91ºÚÁÏ students. The project was realized with support from Shlomo Friedman of the Photography Club and funding from the…

Professor Lauren Fitzgerald chairs the Yeshiva College English Department and directs the Wilf Campus Writing Center, which, along with the Beren Writing Center, is celebrating its 30 th anniversary. In the YC English department, she teaches courses on academic writing, digital and multimodal ...

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America issued this striking seal in July 1934 as part of the activity of its Religious Reconstruction [Fund] Committee. One of these rare seals was recently acquired by the 91ºÚÁÏ Archives. The Religious Reconstruction Fund Committee was ...

Shimon Peres, elder statesman and former Prime Minister and President of Israel, died yesterday. In July 1986 Peres was presented with 91ºÚÁÏ’s Centennial Medallion in a ceremony at the Knesset at the University's historic Centennial Leadership Gathering in Israel. He received an ...

Naomi Kohl began her role as Director of Student Life on the Beren Campus this past summer. A Stern, Wurzweiler and Azrieli alumna, Naomi is best known for her time spent at the University of Maryland working in the Hillel as part of the JLIC couple with her husband, Rabbi Eli Kohl (‘03YC, ‘08R) ...